Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Quotes

#1. Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

Kim Dae-jung

#2. Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B."
"Maybe you should have it gold-plated."
"Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend.

Ilona Andrews

#3. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

#4. Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

George S. Patton

#5. I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make.

Amanda Lindhout

#6. Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can.

Ilyasah Shabazz

#7. When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Vijender Singh

#8. He was never quite certain what he thought about anything until he had tested his opinion for seaworthiness in the course of some polemical storm.

Mary McCarthy

#9. There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

R. K. Milholland

#10. Brothers and sisters, let us not be closed to the newness that God wants to bring into our lives! Are we often weary, disheartened, and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won't be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.

Pope Francis

#11. He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Euripides

#12. When the surgeon general [Joycelyn Elders] said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.

Snoop Dogg

#13. I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Martin McDonagh

#14. Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine.
Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh.
I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.

P.C. Cast